Background note:

Dr. J.F. Rose was a physician and music-lover, and apparently a surgeon during the Civil War.

Scope and contents:

The Dr. J.F. Rose collection includes two essays and three poems or songs from the Civil War. The essays, a manuscript "Songs of the Civil War" (ca.1909., 36 pp.) and a typescript of the same name, but with very slightly different content (ca.1909, 10 pp.), are accompanied by three compositions of Rose's, "Along the Rio Grande" (n.d., 2 pp.), "Lost, O, Forever Lost (The Awakened Sinner)" (n.d., 2 pp.), and "A Toast to Our Flag" (n.d., 2 pp.).

From internal evidence, it appears that the essays were written in about 1909 (twenty years after the sinking of two American naval ships in a storm in Samoa), and that they may have been written in conjunction with or for a veterans' organization. Rose appears to imply that he was present at both Antietam and the Wilderness and speaks of himself as a veteran, but there are no indications of regiment or staff. His songs are typical patriotic songs of the era, with one -- "Lost, O, Forever Lost" -- with a strong religious message.

Provenance:

Gift of Dr. L. C. Karpinski, 1963.

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Recat. 11/97 rsc

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